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A Museum Fit for Remembrance Day

London’s newly redesigned Imperial War Museum tells the story of World War I at the anniversary of its end.

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Richard Holledge

Nov. 10, 2014 6:38 p.m. ET

London

‘Digging, digging, digging, always bloody digging.” That was the rueful refrain of Britain’s First World War soldiers as they gouged out the trenches that stretched from Switzerland to the English Channel.

Nothing symbolizes the mayhem of the 1914-18 war more than those crude lines of defense, so it is fitting that one of the most dramatic features of London’s newly redesigned Imperial War Museum is a re-creation of a...